What was said

TCP Building Design Committee, October 6, 2020

the recording · 1:36 long, about 12,941 words spoken · captions carried this meeting moderately well

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The town has published neither minutes nor an agenda for this meeting. The recording is the only record, and what follows is a guide to it.

The short version

  1. ▶ 1:14:17The Building Design Committee agreed a priority order for TCP space: town offices, school offices, PACC, then ACE, extended day and preschool.
  2. ▶ 1:14:17Commercial kitchen, Lions Club and Boys and Girls Club space ranked after those uses, with the club last.
  3. ▶ 1:14:21The committee said select board and state rep offices are not needed, and asked for a shared confidential conference room for about eight people.
  4. ▶ 1:16:48The architect was told school department space looks short by about a thousand square feet, and to plan a multi-use community space with stacked storage.
  5. ▶ 1:36:06No votes were taken. The meeting adjourned, and the clerk question was deferred until new members join.

Why it matters — our reading

  • How the TCP building is divided decides which town and school functions get space there, and whether the Boys and Girls Club's current building stays in use. Both bear on staffing and operating costs funded by taxes and donations.
  • Members and the public raised a commercial kitchen and the school-side ACE program. Their cost and management would fall on the town or school budget if they go ahead.

Watch next

  • The architect's revised space plan reflecting these directions, including the school department shortfall and the multi-use community space.
  • The committee's clerk appointment, deferred until new members join.

capitalfacilitiespolicypublic commentspecial educationtown departments

Present: Dave Pasos (member); Brian Leon (member); Dave Blat (member); Michael Ray Jeff (member); Greg (chair); Dr Burnham (superintendent); John Wanda (director of facilities, school department). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

No substantive votes heard. 1 procedural.

The money

  1. ▶ 27:01Boys and Girls Club budget impact

    A member said moving the club into split buildings would require more staff and raise costs funded by townspeople and donations.

  2. ▶ 31:13ACE program funding

    The superintendent said the ACE program is funded as part of the school budget and needs an attached administrator.

  3. ▶ 1:09:12Kitchen build costs

    Members asked who furnishes kitchens for PACC and ACE; the school facilities director said a basic residential-type kitchen would not trigger redesign.

Settled without a vote

  • ▶ 1:14:21Select board and state rep offices are not needed; a confidential conference room for about eight people is requested.
  • ▶ 1:16:48Direct the architect that school department space appears short by approximately a thousand square feet, to be closed with the school department, perceived in the pink area.
  • ▶ 1:14:17Priority list: town offices, school offices, PACC, ACE/extended day/preschool, then commercial kitchen, Lions Club, Boys and Girls Club.
  • ▶ 1:23:09Direct architect to make the space by conference rooms three and four a multi-use community space with table storage, and use stacked vertical storage.
  • ▶ 5:35A member will take minutes for this meeting; clerk question deferred until new members join.

Documents and exhibits

The town’s minutes

The town has not published minutes for this meeting.

Heard in the recording

  • ▶ 9:23the current plan that the architect has circulatedplan or drawing, shown

State law asks minutes to list the documents and exhibits used at a meeting (M.G.L. c.30A §22(a)). Names from the recording are the caption model’s hearing; the two sides are matched by name, by script, so a document named two different ways can be missed. A place to look, not a finding.

Public comment

  1. ▶ 1:30:05School facilities director: school area still lacks an office for the administrative assistant; the 354 sq ft storage room has a sprinkler riser and a vault, poor for a lounge. — a speaker, director of facilities for the school department, resident
  2. ▶ 1:32:00As a resident: Boys and Girls Club should not leave a vacant building in the town center; give them study space and gym access at TCP. — a speaker, resident
  3. ▶ 1:32:56Urged caution on a commercial kitchen: permitting, management and Board of Health rules; suggested an RFP to a operator. — a speaker, resident
  4. ▶ 45:30Asked what would happen to the Boys and Girls Club's current building if the club moved into TCP. — Marcy Foreman, as heard, Boys and Girls Club board, fundraising co-chair

Where the time went

Minutes of recording by subject, from the topic spans below. A topic with two subjects counts toward both.

The whole meeting, in order

  1. ▶ 0:15Opening remarks and roll callinformational · 3:11 long
  2. ▶ 3:26Clerk vacancy and planning board seatdeferred until new members · 4:13 long · personnel
  3. ▶ 7:39Space plan: offices, conference rooms, storage, ACE programdiscussion · 27:01 long · facilities, special education
  4. ▶ 34:40Boys and Girls Club space and extended daydiscussion · 23:40 long · facilities
  5. ▶ 58:20Priority ranking of usesconsensus on priority list · 16:01 long · facilities
  6. ▶ 1:14:21Directions to the architect, conference rooms, namingconsensus · 15:19 long · facilities
  7. ▶ 1:29:40Public commentinformational · 6:26 long · public comment
  8. ▶ 1:36:06Adjournmentadjourned · 0:34 long

What the captions could not carry

  • Individual vote responses in the adjournment vote are only partly captured
  • Some speakers are not identified in the captions

Reports this meeting suggests

Our reading of the discussion: questions where numbers were in play and a page laying them out would have helped. Every meeting’s suggestions are merged into one register.

  • ▶ 8:19Town office spaceHow much space does each use need in the TCP building?already answered: thread:town-offices
  • ▶ 38:56Extended day spaceHow many classrooms does extended day need?

These are ours, and they are not the record

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